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Essex County board approves multiple park, public-works and public-health contracts and budget insertions totaling millions
Summary
The commissioners approved a set of contracts and budget insertions for parks, public works and public health, including park maintenance contracts, a $1.625 million Weekwick Park field project and architectural work for a new transportation and election storage facility.
The Essex County Board of County Commissioners approved a series of contract awards and budget insertions affecting parks, recreation and public works, and accepted several grants for health and corrections needs.
Joshua Zates, representing Essex County Parks, reviewed awards including a 24-month garbage-collection contract with Direct Waste Services (not to exceed $983,535), landscape maintenance at South Mountain Recreation Complex (not to exceed $507,400), a holiday-lighting contract (not to exceed $266,096) and authorization to use the Essex County Open Space Trust Fund for a Weekway Park baseball field conversion (amount not to exceed $1,625,000) and other park work. Vendor Fred Hodge Jr., introduced for the holiday-lighting contract, said, "I'm the president and cofounder of ClearView Washing. We've been around for 21 years."
David Antonio, Department of Public Works, reported awards including the Weekwick Park contract to CNET Construction for the baseball field improvements (not to exceed $1,625,000) and an architectural and engineering contract for a new transportation and election-storage facility in Verona with Camito Associates (approximately $1,287,000). Antonio described the Verona project as consolidating election-machine storage and transportation services to save rent and improve security.
The board also accepted multiple grant insertions: a recurring DEP-supported environmental health grant for the Office of Public Health Management, a prosecutor/victim-witness advocacy award ($849,720) requiring an in-kind match, Department of Corrections grants for reporting and body armor (approximately $48,760.59 to purchase about 37 vests), and a state reimbursement for early-voting expenses ($22,940.15). Commissioners asked about vendor history, project scope and safeguards for electronic voting-machine storage; staff said secure, climate-controlled storage and design standards will be addressed in forthcoming design phases.
Most of these items were approved by roll call as consent or grouped resolutions. Commissioners thanked staff and vendors and noted that some items were presented as revenue-generating contracts for the county.
